Lead-in for fish-pounds.



A. GLBRIGGS.' I LEAD-IN FORHSH POUNDS. APPLIoATIoN PILU; 1`sma.2o,l191;.

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' with poundsadapted more .catching live fish, that shall be simple of iwith any glass or nnrrnn s'rnrns ra'rnivr carton.

ARTHUR C, BRIGGS, GF DETROlIT, MICHIGAN'.

LEAD-IN ron FISH-POUNDS.

To all v'wheat t may concern Be it known thatI, ARTHUR C. Barcos, a

citizen of the United States, residing at' 7 Detroit,.in the county of'ayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Lead-lnfo1-Fisl1-Pou1ids, of which `the following is ti'sp"eci'lic1tion.V .y

This invention relates to a lead-in 'for ish pounds. j The object ofvthe invention is to provide -a detachable lead-inI to be used inconnect-ion .novel construction and `arrangement of parts of adetachablejlead-in for fish pounds, as

,will hereinafter be fully described -I`and claimed. I Y In theaccompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, and in whichlike "characters of reference indicate corresponding parts,-F1gure 1 1sa vlew, 1n side elevation, partly' in. section, of a port-ion of a poundshowing combined therewith a lead# in embodying the` improvements of thepre-sent invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan View.

The lead-in is attached to va pound l which is vmade of glass or' othersuitable material, and may be 'an ordinary llason fruit jar, or anyother receptacle suited to the purpose andhaving a mouth ofsufficientsize to receive the lead-in, presently to be described. Thepound is inte-.ded to lie on its side upon thebed of the body of waterwhere the fish are to be caught, and will contain a suitable bait asusual.

The detachable lead-in, which forms the subject matter ofthe presentinvention, may be constructed from transparent glass, celluloid, orother material, and comprises a straight cylindrical neck 2, a Haringmouth 3 to rest upon the edgeof the mouth of the pound, and a funnelthroat 4, the structure being made of a strength'that Will `enable it towithstand comparatively rough usage without danger of breakage.' Thethroat i' projects within the pound a distance sulficlent to form inconjunction with the Walls Specification of Letters Patent. application:nea march 2o, 1911.

particularly for Patented Dec. 3G, 13. serial No. 615,630.

. of the shoulder 5 an efectivecul-de-'sac -6 of which the only out-letis the throat opening ow, as 1s well known, entrappedrsh invariably seekthe highest level of the trap confining them in their effort to escape,and

as the pound to which this lead-in is attached, will, as stated, he onits lside, it follows 4that the fish will seek the upper wall thereof,and this being above the plane of the throat opening,

there will be practically no danger of any of the fish escaping, for assoon as they enter 'the cul-de-sac and en# counter the throat 4 andshoulder', they will immediately turn and seek escape in the otherdirect-ion,- and repeat these attempts indefinitely.

The lead-in may be held combined with a pound in any 'preferred manner,that herein shown. Consisting' in providing the mouth with twodiametrically disposed orifices 7 that communicate with and consti.

tute continuations of longitudinal grooves S formed in the exterior ofthe neck and that extendr preferably throughout its length. Thesegrooves and orifices are engaged by cords or tapes 9, Ione end of'eachof which has secured to it a stop l0 in the nature of a ball of cork,lead or any other. suitableniaterial, and these two stops are of adiameter suiiciently greater thanthe grooves to prevent passagethereinto vwhen the lead-in is in position. As shown in FigA 1, thecords are drawn over the edge of the mouth and are passed one or moretimes around the mouth of the pound, and their ends are tied together,thus holding the lead-in and pound securely assembled.

While it will generally be preferred to employ the flexible fasteningYmeans, such as described, for holding the lead-in assembled With a jaryor the like, still there may be circumstances where the use of the cordsor the like` could not be resorted to as in the event of their'4becoming broken or lost, and it is to enable "the operatorstill to holdthe'lead-in combined with the jar that the straight cylindrical neel*tainable, by loopinff any flexible material, such as paper, clot i,leather, around the neck to provide a gasket, or by the provisionl of, agasket, the lead-in may be held firmly in posit-iron. as will beobvious, could not be secured if the lead-in Were of funnel shapethroughout.

2-is pro vided, so that if cords or the like are not ob or the like,

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or other pounds that may readily be obi-`4 The lead-in forming thisinvention is, as a Whole, exceedingly simple .in construction, and willbe found `of the highest efficiency and utility in use, and'by reasonof-its peculiar construction, is'Well adapted to jars tained, so thatbreakage of the latter will only cause 4,temporary inconvenience.

lVhat is'claimed isi-'- l. A lead-in for i'ish pounds comprisingyin arigid transparent structure, a neck .provided with a plurality ofchannels, a liaring-mouth having openings communicating Withthechannels, and a funnel throat, and flexible attaching members passingthrough the openings and Within the channels and provided with terminalstops.

2. A fish trap comprising a transparent pound closed at one end and openat the other, and a lead-in therefor comprising a cylindrical neck to tWithin the open end,l and provided with a pluralityof channels, a Haringmouth having openings communition.

3.'T11e combination With a bottle fish pound, of a lead-in comprising afrustoconical throat, a cylindrical neck with external channels, aHaring mouth at the outer 'extremity of said cylindrical neck adapted-Yto contact wviththe end Walls of the fish pound, and means fittingwithin the said` neck channels for 'securing thel lead-in to' the saidfish pound.

"In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have heretoatlixed my signature in the' presence of twowitnesses.

l ARTHUR C. B RIGGS.

Titnesses EDWARD N. PAGELSEN, ELIZABETH 'M. BROWN.

